Piva

Piva is a venture capital firm investing in visionary entrepreneurs and emerging technology companies that bring new software and hardware solutions to the world’s industrial and energy markets. It is investing its first $250M Fund I in disruptive energy and industrial companies across North America and Europe. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Adzmel Adznan

Partner

Ricardo Angel

Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer

Maria Buitron

Principal

Bennett Cohen

Partner

Steven F. Foster

Venture Partner

Mark Gudiksen

Managing Partner

Adam Lasics

Venture Partner

Julia Reichelstein

Investor

Roxanne Tully

Investor

24 past transactions

Sense Photonics

Series A in 2020
Sense Photonics is an RTP high technology company that enables reliable, modular, and configurable 3D sensing. The company produces advanced LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for an autonomous vehicles, robotics, and industrial automation markets. Their core technology protected by over 200 patents enables a simple, high-performance, solid-state solution with no moving parts that can uniquely meet the rigorous performance, reliability and cost requirements for automotive and industrial applications. Sense Photonics was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Joywell Foods

Series B in 2022
Derived from exotic plants, protein sweeteners are rare compounds that provide an amazing taste without the calories.

Anuvia Plant Nutrients

Series C in 2021
Anuvia Plant Nutrients Holdings Inc. manufactures fertilizers and plant nutrition products. It offers bio-based fertilizers that optimizes nutrient availability and efficiency for plants, improves soil health, preserves natural resources, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. It offers its product for farming, agriculture, golf courses, sports turf, and lawn care. Anuvia Plant Nutrients Holdings Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Zellwood, Florida.

Plantible Foods

Series A in 2021
Plantible Foods, Inc. develops and produces plant-based protein. The company extracts the grassy flavor from lemna and develops alternative protein from aquatic plants. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.

Velo3D

Private Placement in 2020
Velo3D, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers Sapphire Printer, a laser powder bed fusion metal additive manufacturing system for support free metal 3D printing; Flow, a simulation driven print preparation software; and Assure, a quality assurance and control system. The company serves contract manufacturing, aviation/aerospace, energy, and industrial customers. Velo3D, Inc. was formerly known as Velo Technologies Corp. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Campbell, California.

Menlo Micro

Private Placement in 2020
Menlo Micro is a developer of an electromechanical switch technology used to offer products ranging from battery chargers to electric vehicles. The company's products can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and medical instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Menlo Micro

Series B in 2020
Menlo Micro is a developer of an electromechanical switch technology used to offer products ranging from battery chargers to electric vehicles. The company's products can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and medical instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Urbint

Series B in 2020
Urbint is an artificial intelligence company for infrastructure and utility safety. It creates AI-powered solutions that enable utilities and infrastructure operators to maximize risk reduction on every dollar spent and deploy the right resources to the right place at the right time. The company's technology leverages proprietary Models of the World and machine learning to enable risk-driven decision making, enhancing safety, reliability, and affordability - all while reducing emissions. Urbin predicts and prevents threats to critical infrastructure and the workers who maintain it to make communities safer and more resilient. The company pinpoints risk in the construction, servicing, replacement, and protection of infrastructure.

Malta

Venture Round in 2023
Malta Inc. develops an industrial-grade and grid-scale energy storage system. The company's electro-thermal energy storage system collects energy from wind, solar, or fossil generators; converts electrical energy into thermal energy by creating a temperature difference; stores energy in molten salt; reconverts back to electrical energy with a heat engine; and distributes the electricity back to the grid when it is needed. Malta Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Pyka

Series A in 2022
Pyka is building the future of autonomous electric aircraft. We develop autonomous aircraft to provide people with an affordable and compelling alternative to ground transit using hyper-short takeoff and landing aircraft. Our planes utilize state the art obstacle detection, path planning, electric motors, and batteries propulsion systems, autonomous control systems to navigate their environments and take off and land from almost anywhere. Today, our planes are serving the agriculture industry and are the first certified electric autonomous airplane flying commercially.

Worlds

Private Placement in 2020
Worlds is completely re-inventing how organizations see and understand their worlds. Through live, AI-powered models, the company’s clients can remotely see, learn and analyze their worlds in ways that were never possible before.

Boston Metal

Series B in 2021
Boston Metal is a provider of industrial-scale, metals production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun-out of MIT in 2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA.

Solidia Technologies

Venture Round in 2021
Solidia Technologies enables next generation products that offer superior performance while significantly minimizing environmental impact. Solidia is an advanced materials company, focusing on developing scalable solutions for the world of building and construction materials. Their technology enables the design of next generation products made by low energy processes that utilize waste materials and consume CO2. The products offer superior performance and value when compared to cement, concrete and stone while significantly minimizing environmental impact.

Velo3D

Series D in 2020
Velo3D, Inc. develops and manufactures metal laser sintering printing machines for 3D printing. It offers Sapphire Printer, a laser powder bed fusion metal additive manufacturing system for support free metal 3D printing; Flow, a simulation driven print preparation software; and Assure, a quality assurance and control system. The company serves contract manufacturing, aviation/aerospace, energy, and industrial customers. Velo3D, Inc. was formerly known as Velo Technologies Corp. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Campbell, California.

Alloy Enterprises

Series A in 2023
Alloy Enterprises Inc. develops 3D printing technologies to tackle inefficiencies in conventional manufacturing. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Malta

Series B in 2021
Malta Inc. develops an industrial-grade and grid-scale energy storage system. The company's electro-thermal energy storage system collects energy from wind, solar, or fossil generators; converts electrical energy into thermal energy by creating a temperature difference; stores energy in molten salt; reconverts back to electrical energy with a heat engine; and distributes the electricity back to the grid when it is needed. Malta Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Anuvia Plant Nutrients

Series D in 2022
Anuvia Plant Nutrients Holdings Inc. manufactures fertilizers and plant nutrition products. It offers bio-based fertilizers that optimizes nutrient availability and efficiency for plants, improves soil health, preserves natural resources, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. It offers its product for farming, agriculture, golf courses, sports turf, and lawn care. Anuvia Plant Nutrients Holdings Inc. was founded in 2005 and is based in Zellwood, Florida.

Boston Metal

Series B in 2021
Boston Metal is a provider of industrial-scale, metals production solutions utilizing its Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) process. MOE provides the metals industry with a more efficient, lower cost, and greener solution for the production of a wide array of metals and alloys from a wide variety of feedstocks. Boston Metal was spun-out of MIT in 2012 with an investment from Ingo Wender and has since scaled the technology 1,000x and produced thousands of kilograms of metal. Boston Metal’s headquarters and industrial development center are located in Woburn, MA.

Menlo Micro

Series C in 2022
Menlo Micro is a developer of an electromechanical switch technology used to offer products ranging from battery chargers to electric vehicles. The company's products can handle high temperatures and high-stress conditions and help in battery management, home automation, and medical instrumentation that enable clients to work with advanced products and deliver efficient outcomes using high power. Menlo Micro was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Xage Security

Series B in 2022
Xage Security is an information technology company that offers blockchain-protected security platform for Industrial IoT.

INERATEC

Series B in 2024
Operator of chemical plants equipped with chemical reactor technology intended for gas-to-liquid, power-to-liquid, and power-to-gas applications products. The company's technology is based on compact and microstructure chemical reactors and allows dynamic, safe, and efficient operation of exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions such as Fischer-tropsch synthesis, methanol synthesis, methanation, and synthesis gas generation via catalytic partial oxidation, enabling chemical plants operators to have integration of the entire chemical plant in transportable containers.

Worlds

Series A in 2023
Worlds is completely re-inventing how organizations see and understand their worlds. Through live, AI-powered models, the company’s clients can remotely see, learn and analyze their worlds in ways that were never possible before.

OneRail

Series B in 2022
OneRail is a final mile delivery orchestration platform providing real-time visibility, actionable data, and data-driven optimization capabilities for its enterprise clients. OneRail’s cloud-based “delivery switch” simplifies same-day and on-demand delivery execution by connecting the demand signal (POS, eCommerce, ERP) with the ecosystem of delivery networks and internal fleets in real-time. The result of OneRail’s centralized view of disparate final mile data enables data-driven optimization, positively impacting the dependability, speed, and cost of final mile fulfillment.